SCUNTHORPE Scorpions promoter Rob Godfrey believes that his team are finally beginning to show what they are capable of this season.

An eight-point victory at Sheffield was followed by a dominant display in a home win over Glasgow last week. Those results were then followed up by only a three-point defeat to Peterborough in the first leg of the Knock Out Cup with the second leg to take place on Monday.

Those are the kinds of results that Godfrey expected at the beginning of the season, with Nicolai Klindt being one of the catalysts for the recent set of good results. And Godfrey revealed the Dane is likely to stay beyond his initial 28 days.

Godfrey said: “I am very pleased that it has all started to come together.

“Ashley Birks and Josh Auty are still struggling a bit with new frames, but we are addressing those problems and one by one we are getting everybody going.

“Nicolai has been the catalyst for success and made such a difference. He is even better than last year and in a couple of weeks will be riding at number one.

“That will be perfect for us as Josh will move back down the order.

“Nicolai is likely to be here for the rest of the season which give us the chance to go on and win the league.

“Anders is probably a bit further away than we originally thought as we are looking at about four or five weeks for him to be fit which shows how important signing Nicolai was.

“When Anders has a few meetings and is match fit we can have that luxury of bringing him back especially if someone becomes injured or loses form dramatically, but we will cross that bridge when we come to it.”

After Tuesday’s narrow defeat to Peterborough in the Knock Out Cup, Scunthorpe’s attentions now turn to the long trip to Plymouth on Friday, which Godfrey is targeting as another match they can take maximum points from.

All but Matt Williamson raced in the Scorpions’ 46-44 win at the St Boniface Arena last year with the team going into the match on a high.

Godfrey said: “I believe we can take all the points at Plymouth and we will be in confident mood going there.

“If we can get the three or four points it sets up nicely for the rest of the season and puts us in a good position.

“If we win all our home matches we will be near the play-offs. Plus we have already faced two of the toughest teams at home.”

Godfrey was also pleased with the narrow loss in the first leg of the Knock Out Cup ties to Peterborough, with the second leg taking place on Monday.

It makes the Scorpions favourites to progress to the quarter-finals where they will again face Plymouth.

Godfrey said: “The three point loss at Peterborough is negligible and it is not the end of the world.

“If it was a league match we would have done things differently and probably would have won it.

“We took Ryan out of heat 15 because we felt Ryan Fisher had something against him and we didn’t want him getting injured.

“We played tactics to protect Ryan and having a three-point loss is like a win for me.

“Peterborough are a quality side but we were making the starts, wanting the wins and it could have been more.

“We will be confident going into Monday’s second leg but it is a daytime meeting which goes against the grain of our lads, who prefer the night time ones. We are on a roll, I am very satisfied at this point and still feel there is a lot more to come.”